[Riff]
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E|---------------------| Em  D

[Riff]
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[Riff]
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[Verse 1]
Em                     D
Been a long and lonely winter for my mother

[Riff comes in on mother]

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Em                D
Her mother dying slowly

[Riff]
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      Em    Em/F#    G
It's hard to sit and see
      Em    Em/F#    G           A
The harvest with the seed, each day

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[Verse 2]
Em                D
The static on the TV screen is snowing

[Riff comes in on snowing]
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Em                       D
It's going out of season

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Em       Em/F#   G
There's a wall between
     Em      Em/F# G
Like crossing open seas
     Bm          A
The lady at the front desk
         G
By the waiting room
D             G    D G
Knows me by name


[Verse 3]
G                     D
This is not a pointed finger
         A                   Em     Em Em/F#
I don't know where it would belong
G                           D
Do you ever wonder at this shadow
              A             Em     Em Em/F#
We're pouring out our silence on


[Chorus]
G            Em        G           D
Dying is for strangers, I know you see it
Em          G              D
We wear our smiles like a crime
G            Em         G             D
If I had the money, I'd set the ledger even
      G Bm Em         D
Pay in full, waste my time


[Verse 4]
G                 D
Hand-me-downs and wreckage
          A            Em
With the glow of other lives
G                    D
I gather them like children
             A           Em
Something to show for our time


[Chorus]
G            Em        G           D
Dying is for strangers, I know you see it
Em          G              D
We wear our smiles like a crime
G            Em         G             D
If I had the money, I'd set the ledger even
      G Bm Em         Bm A G D G
Pay in full, waste my time

D G

[Outro]
Em                     D
Been a long and lonely winter for my mother